Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-05


work than that of Moses leading the children
| Of israel through the wilderness. Brigham
| travelled thousands of miles through deserts
| and wilds Moses Travelled only hundreds Il
tool, Brigham less than year to find his land
Of Canaan. while Moses required forty. In
| 6ftv wears from now Brigham Young's weak
nesSes will have been forgotten and he will
rank as one of the greatest men Ill history"
aJvborein did his greatness consists" asked.
aHs was great all around. He seemed to
| have wonderful intuition, and to take in the
| details of a matter at a glance. He could
| settle a question the moment he heard 1t,
! and though he knew but little of books and
read little he had picked up great deal OF
| knowledge by observation. He showed
great deal of practical knowledge in the
| building of the temple and other structures
throughout Utah, and he evidently under
| stood the scientific principles of their con-
struction He was a very industrious man.
He went to bed early, rose early, dressed
simply and ate the plainest of food. He was
wrapped up in the Mormon church and be-
lieved that polygamy came from God. He
entered into polygamous marriages merely
from a sense of duty. He was not a sensual
man, and he has told me himself that the
duty he had to perform in taking unto him
self more than one wife was the greatest cross
he had to bear
"He left large fortune, did he not"
ayes. Each o; his wives was well cared
for, and each of them now draws her income
from part of his estate, which was left in
the hands of trustees for that purpose. Each
of his children got $4,000, and, you know,
he had fifty of them. Brigham Young had a
COOK chance to make money, and large part
of his fortune came from the building of the
Union Pacific railroad through Utah. The
contract was given to him. One of his sons
was one of the masters of construction and
the profits of the contracts were very large
Brigham Young spent, however. very lib
orally. He kept the church in his mind be-
fore himself, and l don't think he cared
anything for money except as a means to
carry out his ends When he died he was
buried with great ceremony, and this talk
about his resurrection is merely Gentle lie
of the most foolish character"
~
The literary activity of the United States
is going along at railroad speed, and hear Of
several new ventures. Sidney Luska is to
have novel in the May Lippincott, and
Jules Verne has sold story to s. S. Mcclure
for his newspaper syndicate. Frances Hodg-
son Burnett has written sequel to Little
Lord Fauntleroy," and she has been paid
$4,000 for it. Mrs. Logan is aiding a num-
Der of her friends in the preparation of mat
ter about the general, and | am told that a
biography of Logan will be published this
summer. A western congressman's daughter
is preparing a series of articles about the
children of the presidents, which will be pub
Lis ed in one of the childs magazines soon,
and hear the new novel of Henry w. Elliott,
the author of "The Bassett Claim" well spoz-
EN- Of "The Bassett Claim" is perhaps the
best Washington novel that was ever written,
and it did much toward the passage of the
French spoliation claims by congress. Mr..
Elliott, by the way, is to be married in a few
weeks, and himself and wife propose taking a
wedding tour to Egypt and Jerusalem.
*"*
saw President Cleveland and Dan Lamont
out riding this afternoon. How closely they
stick together, and how well the one seems to
fit into the other There has been nothing
like it in our history. Cleveland has no con-
fidants except Dan Lamont.
Andrew jackson, who next to Cleveland is
the most noted Of our presidents in independ-
ence of will power, kept corps Of political
advisers continually about him. He talked
over his plans with Van Buren, and Eaton,
and he made his kitchen cabinet so noted
that it has become a matter of his
tory. Isaac Hill, the editor of The
New Hampshire Patriot, was given an APP
pontment in the treasury so that he might be
in Washington to council with Jackson, and
it was the same with Amos Kendall, who af-
terward became Jackson's postmaster general
Jackson gave his old friend, Lewis, of Nash
vile, an appointment in the treasury for the
same reason, and he afterward brought
Frank P. Blair here as the editor of The
Globe in order that he might advise and as
sist him in his presidential work John Tyler
did not pay much attention to the wishes of
his cabinet, and he changed them at will, but
he had his advisers nthe persons Of Henry A.
Wise of Virginia, and others. Washington,
as president, did very little without the coun-
sci Of Adams and Hamilton, and the relations
of Jefferson to the leaders of his party were
very close and confidential Madison was
advised as to all that was going on, and the
relations Of the men at the head of the gov
eminent were the closest.
Madison sustained the same relations to his
party as did jefferson, and it was the same
with Monroe John Quincy Adams and
Henry Clay worked together after their
nomination, and Martin Van Buren, ran his
administration with much the same advisers
as had jackson. Harrison was, as far as |
can learn, not much more than tool in the
hands OF Webster, and Robert j. Walker.
James Buchanan and William L. Marcy
practically ran the administration of Polk.
Zach Taylor was also little more than
figurehead, and Frank Pierce was not averse
to advising with JEFF Davis, his secretary of
war, and Marcy, his secretary of state We
all know how Buchanan vacillated this way
and that under the influence of his cabinet
advisers, and Abraham Lincoln, though he
judged for himself, was largely influenced
by Edwin NJ. Stanton, William H. Seward
and Salmon P. Chase. Many of the
most serious of Grants mistakes as
president arose from his choosing a poor
set Of presidential advisers, and it
was through such advice that all the scandals
of his administration arose. Hayes had very
close relations with his cabinet, and as to
Garfield, the fact that he was ruled by Blaine
Is an open secret. Arthur and Frelinghuysen
were very close to each other, and Arthur
had sort of kitchen cabinet of New York
friends who largely controlled his appoint
ments- President Cleveland, whom every
one supposed would be more dominated by
the great men of his party than any of the
Others, has run his administration to suit him
self, with no advice from any one 1t has
been one of the surprises of politics.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER